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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Atlantic Charter
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A joint statement on the rights of nations by Winston Churchill and the US president, F.D. Roosevelt, after a series of meetings in August 1941 on warships off the coast of Newfoundland. The unanswered purpose of the meeting was Britain's desperate need for American support (this was four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the USA into *World War II), but the pious generalities of the Charter were at least a joint rebuttal of everything the Nazis stood for; and the following year its clauses were written into the Declaration of the *United Nations.
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